“Why are you so much smarter than us?” “I don’t think we are, really. I think it’s just that you have to… — Terry Pratchett
“Why are you so much smarter than us?”
“I don’t think we are, really. I think it’s just that you have to learn to make things when it’s cold for half the year. I think we got our empire because of the weather. Anything was better than staying at home in the rain. I am pretty certain people looked out of the window and rushed off to discover India and Africa.”
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“That’s unfair!” said Daphne.
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“What about the hangman? Doesn’t he do murder, then?”
[No, because enough people say it isn’t. That’s what a courtroom is for. It’s where the law happens.]
“And that makes it right? Didn’t God say, ‘Thou shalt not kill’?”
[Yes. But after that it got complicated.]
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